

"jark and I have worked together on deviantART from day 1. The CEO of the company that owns deviantART wrote this in response to the recent uproar over the dismissal of Jark: Spyed's response: Link Such communities regularly get bought out by companies but rarely are the original founders rewritten to be minor players in the tail. Most long time members of the skinning community remember that it was Jark and his friend Matteo who founded and nursed deviantART.

More troubling has been the seemingly rewriting of history. But last week, the company that owns deviantART fired the popular community founder Scott Jarkoff (aka "Jark"). With milliosn of visitors a month, dA seems on the precipe of huge success. Its adminstrators have hung out here and WC's admins have hung out there. Its community has been friends with our community since the beginning of this site. DeviantART is possibly the most popular art community on the Internet.
